Ingredients:
- broth (beef or chicken stock)
- rice noodles
- herbs (star anise, cloves, anise powder, and cinnamon stick)
- meat (beef)
- vegetables (onion, yellow onion, ginger, bean sprout, and garlic)
- flavoring (soy sauce, fish sauce, and salt)
How to cook:
Step 1) Cut up your vegetables leave them aside.
Step 2) You would want to pour your broth of your choosing into a pot then put your diced vegetables in and wait for it to boil.
Step 3) Once the broth is boiling get your herbs and put them in a herb bag and put it into the broth and wait twenty or so minutes on low heat to let the flavors sink in with the broth.
Step 4) This is optional based on preference you can add any of the flavoring to make it suit your taste.
Step 5) While you were cooking the broth you should have another pot with boiling water cooking the noodles.
Step 6) Lastly, plating you would want to put the noodles into a bowl first, then the bean sprouts, next the beef, and finally the broth. The does not need to be cooked as it will get cooked when it sits in the broth.
Blog prompt: Option 2
I chose the food Pho because I just enjoy eating it, as it’s very flavorful. The ingredients don’t really connect me with anything, but the herbs because I always was interested with testing out combinations of spices. This food also was very memorable for me because it was one of the many foods I first cooked as a child and one of the first food I have a memory of eating. This food nourished me by being a good food, whenever I felt uncomfortable i would eat it I would forget what bothered me because the flavors were that good. To me this food is one of my stress food because it’s good and you can easily change around the flavors to not get tired of it. Now I at least eat Pho 2 times a week.
I like how you clearly explain step by step on how to make pho. If I was an alien from outer space and I read your blog, I would probably know how to make pho now. I never knew how to make pho, so I always went out with my friend’s to eat pho. There are like three pho spots near my high school. So after volleyball practices, we would usually pick a spot to eat pho. Pho is cheap and enjoyable. But, can I add any meat to my pho? For example, pork or ham. Does it still make pho tasty or not? I’m probably going to make some pho soon, but with my own twist.
This recipe really came to my thought. As a kid I’ve always went out to eat pho with my family and never really understood how it works. I never thought of making homemade pho because it wouldn’t taste as good as the ones made in restaurants. I’ve seen a lot of pho recipe reels online and they seem so good. I’ll use this recipe next time I make homemade pho. Perhaps, are there any other ways of making pho?